Another Reformation Day has come and gone. Each year the day gives us occasion to reflect on the significance of the upheavals of the Sixteenth Century—upheavals that changed the religious, social, and cultural landscape of the West, especially the western church. What was at stake? What was it...

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Rev. Travis Scholl is managing editor of theological publications at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. His most recent book is "Walking the Labyrinth" (IVP). He writes on religion and culture for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at www.stltoday.com.

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Leann Luchinger July 9, 2014

Is this one of the most infectious songs you’ve heard lately? The whole world is singing, videoing, YouTube posting, Happy. Everyone wants to be happy – but just how to be happy, in the face of our daily trials, seems allusive. Abraham Lincoln said “We are as happy as we decide to be.” When we “Hope on Nothing Less,” and hold a patient expectation, a trust, confident waiting, and faith – knowing that good will come… eventually. “We are as happy as we decide to be.”